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Fashion Babylon
by Imogen Edwards-Jones

What is fashion? What is fashionable? Who decides what is in? What is out? Why is it green one year, and blue the next? Why is one little black dress worth three thousand pounds and another thirty quid? Is the catwalk that catty? Is everyone high on drugs and full of champagne? What makes a supermodel so super? And a designer too hot to touch? Who is making the money? Who owns who? Who hates who? And who's in each other's pocket?

Following in the glamourous footsteps of "Hotel Babylon" and "Air Babylon", "Fashion Babylon" will get under the well-cut skin of the fashion industry. Using a world renowned source, "Fashion Babylon" will take you through six months in a designer's life. Starting at the end of one catwalk show, it will explain how a collection is put together - from the rail of found objects, to how it gets on to the catwalk, into the shops and onto the covers of a magazine.

It will tell you who goes to the shows, where they sit and whose backside one needs to kiss to get there. It will introduce you to a host of places and characters, it will take you into a world where women get paid tens of thousands for getting dressed in the morning and where a wrong shirt length can cost you your career.

Witty, naughty and full of gripping detail "Fashion Babylon" will explain the mark -ups, talk you through fashion's two seasons and discuss the money and commerce behind one of the most international, lucrative and secretive of businesses. With something for the simple follower of fashion as well as the hardcore fashionista, "Fashion Babylon" will change the way you sashay into Top Shop, flick through the pages of Vogue and enter the portals of Harvey Nichols forever.

Yes, it is a novel by a British writer and journalist, Imogen Edwards-Jones with the help of an anonymous. It is a powerful, eye-opening to those fashion lovers, who eventually will learn all the heartache and buzz behind the glamourous tops. It is a true story, with some names being changed to protect the guilty. All the anecdotes, the highs and lows, the scams, the drugs, the deals, the rivalries and the insanity are as real and as told by the "anonymous" to Edwards-Jones. The main character - 'the designer' is fictionalised tho, but the incidents are real, the celebrities play themselves and the story take place within 6 months of a designer's year. According to Edwards-Jones: "My top three sources are all very high profile and very much at the top of the fashion world. One of them still works at Vogue. And because I only finished the book in April this year (2006), all the material is absolutely up to the minute".

So I say, you better get this book! Unfortunately there are only 2 copies left at MPH Midvalley and none at Borders (you have to make special order). I am not sure about Kinokuniya, but I don't think they have it either. Unless you can order though Amazon.com. It only cost RM64.90 each and I can bet you will love it!

Prologue

Finally, I managed to start up this blog after 2 years! I've been planning it for so long, but I can can never find the "right" reason and sense of directions for my blog. After been following so much of my favourite blogs and sites, alas, it's is here! And I'm planning to keep it up and running this time around!

The Modus Vivendi means : The way of life. Thus, this blog will focus on many things from my lifestyle which I'm keen upon, i.e. fashion, books, movies, music, entertainment, baking, health, sexuality and a lot more, which i feel deemed fit for the modern lifestyle of men.

Anyway, I would like to thank my friends who are and will continue supporting me like Kash and others.

Enjoy!